Race for the Rain Forest - #63

We have no word about our friends. The recently shown pictures of the area where they lived are frightening.

Oh! I wish I had seen this thread sooner.

I've been an avid clicker for about a year now, and a happy member of Care2.com

Welcome, welcome to our band of like-minded souls. Happy to have you with us.

I have listed my home as a house share with hurricanhousing.org, an offshoot of MoveOn.org, and will do so in other places.

Will also contact local universities in case they have some last minute students coming into the area who need housing. They will also need a car though because I am pretty far away.

People saving the rainforest. That's a great idea. The ultimate tree huggers. I love it.

Darling, I am a tree at this point.

Sanctuary, it's always great to find another WildClicker here in the wooded corner of A2K

front page at http://www.thehungersite.com today

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aktbird57

You and your 283 friends have supported 2,002,547.4 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 62,387.2 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (62,387.2)

American Prairie habitat supported: 38,106.5 square feet.
You have supported: (10,440.7)
Your 283 friends have supported: (27,665.8)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,902,053.7 square feet.
You have supported: (163,345.5)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,738,708.2)

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More than 2,000,000 square feet. Amazing. Did I miss when we did that? I guess we're all a bit distracted.

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which translates to nearly 46 acres

1 Aktbird57 .. 1209 45.967 acres

Yippee!!!! ANother milestone coming up.

Welcome Sanctuary and lastmoderate !!!!!

We are glad to have you here clicking to help save rain forest.

One of our friends from Pass Christian, MS - one of the hardest hit areas - called today. She is with relatives in Jackson, MS and just today the power was restored. She said her home is reported to be still standing although she hasn't seen it.

Still no word about our friends in Ocean Springs.

Welcome Sanctuary and last moderate to the rainforest threads!

ehBeth, ain't that the truth!!!!!!!!!

Danon, so glad hearing you've been in contact your friends! <smiling>
Hang in there! Next call will be from Ocean Springs!

Please stay safe during the holiday, wildclickers!

A webpage from msn with numerous articles regarding the aftermath of Katrina - the National Guard, food and aid, etc.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9107338

Welcome back, wayfarer!

sumac, bless your heart

Stradee, thanks for the link.

We continue to hope and pray.

Clicked

You and your 283 friends have supported 2,003,858.6 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 62,644.7 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (62,644.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 38,129.9 square feet.
You have supported: (10,464.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (27,665.8)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,903,083.9 square feet.
You have supported: (163,392.4)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,739,691.5)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1209 45.973 acres

<sitting down by danon and patti, offering vanilla tea and apple pinwheels, hoping for news from Ocean Springs>

We're getting a taste of drier, cooler air starting today.

Cleaning up old plants and stalks in the garden to put on pile of brush and stuff collected months ago. Will have a proper bon fire soon.

Making a pot roast. Now that is a cool weather meal so I must be anticipating.

Clicked.

Hope you hear good news soon, patti and danon.

Dan, sending good thoughts and prayers for you and pattie and your friends <not able to telephone or contact you - yet.>

We are all attempting to help Katrina victims - and for animal advocates, here are two links that <sigh> warn against sending donations to unfamiliar sites.

> http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/posts/20050902_5.php
> http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/08/katrina_phishin.html

Animal Aid Sites..........
* United Animal Nations: http://www.uan.org/
> * Best Friends Animal Sanctuary: http://www.bestfriends.org/
> * ASPCA: http://www.aspca.org/
> * The Humane Society of the United States: www.hsus.org
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> Additional Useful Links
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> * Federal Emergency Management Agency: http://www.fema.gov/
> * California Department of Consumer Affairs - Hurricane Katrina
> Scam Alert: http://www.dca.ca.gov/hurricane_scam.htm
> * Better Business Bureau: http://www.bbb.org/
>
>

Just going to reply here to say thanks to all of you. I really appreciate it.

Now, for the bad news. On Friday Night, I received emails and phone calls from my sisters in New Orleans, to say they were leaving for Houston, Texas, due to Katrina, headed their way. They are safe, thank God. I received at least 12 phone calls and emails from family and friends inquiring about my sisters. My sister Beth, sold her bed and breakfast in Pass Christian, Ms., a year ago and she lives in East Orange, NJ. Her Chinese antique chests are here with her and the Art Deco bar my mother left to me and I gave to her, has all of its lovely things inside. I hugged her hard when I saw her yesterday. The man she sold it to, called her after having $100K of renovations done, to say it is gone. Pass Christian was the Hawaii, of the Gulf Coast. Only the very well off, live there. As a child, I loved passing the palm trees, the gardens, the old cypress trees, etc. You'd never know you were in Mississippi, from the horror stories told about it. I don't know the whereabouts of many cousins and other relatives residing there. Until my niece moved from Manhatten, I was the only one living away, out of the South and the Gulf, in particular. I just need all of you to light one candle, for those left behind or unable to get out ,after the levee broke. Thank You.

Oh Beth,
I love you! Clicked!

Definitely lighting a candle for everyone tonight.

Perhaps appropriately, it'll be a big citronella candle.